Tomas Bobadilla

Tomas Bobadilla (30 March 1785-21 December 1871) was President of the Dominican Republic from 1 March to 9 June 1844, interrupting Francisco del Rosario Sanchez's terms.

Biography
Tomas Bobadilla was born in Neiba, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in 1785, and he occupied official positions under the Spanish government before becoming involved with the politics of the short-lived Republic of Spanish Haiti in 1821. He later came to support the Dominican independence cause during the Dominican War of Independence, and the conservative Bobadilla was ousted from power by liberal Trinitarians in 1844; Pedro Santana later led a counter-coup against Francisco del Rosario Sanchez's liberal government. Bobadilla became a member of Santana's junta, and he occupied important state offices from 1844 to 1847. In 1847, Santana sent him into exile, but he returned to the country in 1849 and again won the preference of Santana, who appointed him to positions in the judiciary. During Spain's re-annexation of the nation from 1861 to 1865, Bobadilla served as Magistrate of the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo, and, in 1867, he negotiated the newly independent Dominican Republic's peace treaty with Haiti. In 1868, he went into exile for a second time, settling in Puerto Rico in 1871. He died that same year.